and6412

Hello everyone, thank you for interest. Lazeum you are right ;-) As I said, I prefer to fix it than drive those cars ;/ Well, it's not too much financially justified, I know

Hi everyone On the beginning apologies for my English, I'm not a native speaker. Little bit about me: My name is Andrzej (you can call me Andy as well) and I'm from Poland (for those who don't know it's on the middle east of Europe, next to Germany). I'm dealing with vintage cars since few years, but rather in Mercedes. Why here: As I wrote before I have a little bit experience in classics though since 7 years I'm dealing with my project car Mercedes Benz W107 450 SLC from 1976 (also had Porsche 924). (http://sites.google.com/site/mercedesw107450slc/galeria-1) I thereat it purely as a hobby and honesty speaking I prefer to fix those cars than drive it :stupid: Well SLC is almost done (will need few more months) so I'm looking for next ideas. I really like Datsun Z models so this is 1st idea. Moreover, despite the fact that Merc is really great car I have some bad experience with it due to: Extremely high costs of new parts sourced only from MB. Because of that I needed to take some compromises while restoration Mercedes SLC is really complicated car (KJet injection, a lot of equipment etc) It was my first project car so I learned everything on it Last, but not least: When I brung it to Poland 7 years ago it was extremely rare car (after restoration would have some value). Meanwhile after Poland accessed to EU plenty of them were brang here so it's quite popular now Z cars are very rare in Europe, so I would have something special. Consequently there is no point to look for it in EU, except UK, but they are driving on the wrong side of the road Plans: In next few months I plan to buy short version of Z in USA and ship it to PL. I would be grateful for your help, because I have completely no experience in Japan cars. I have many questions and I hope will find answers here. These are on the beginning : My idea is to restore Z to factory spec. Consequently I will look for a car not too rusty, driving, definitely complete, preferably with some history (maybe 1st owner), quite nice factory equiped, never restored etc, but rather cheap . How much such car would cost in US? So far I browsed ebay and some other pages, but still don't have an idea, because pictures don't show nothing. That's why I'm asking you as experienced ones ;-) How big expense it would be? Where to look for it in the web? Do I have real chance to find it nearby NY, because I have family in there which would help me a lot with organising shipping etc.? I would prefer version which have common engine/gerabox/etc... with other Nissan cars. Are there any or I should forget about it? This would make easier to get parts here. Would be grateful for addresses of web stores with parts. It makes easier to prepare a budget. Are there any parts which are not available or very expensive, so I should pay more attention on it? Do they equiped it with A/C while production, or all of them are added later? Any other ideas/suggestions? I would be grateful for your help in above matters. Thanks in advance.